Excuse my ignorance, but how can you be shot and 'unhurt' at the same time?

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BB gun or similar?

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Thats what I thought, but is it really necessary to get 'trident' on the case if it was?
Or is this just an excuse to highlight the fact that there is a problem with gun crime, again..........
Im glad the officer was unhurt, but I get annoyed with the media's half arrsed effort at reporting things.
the Operation Trident unit investigates gun crime involving members of the black community right?
What if one of the scrotes was white, would he be ignored

Excuse my ignorance, but how can you be shot and 'unhurt' at the same time?

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body armour? i hear the term "stab vest" every now and again, is that what the met police wear, does that stop bullets too?

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They will, so i've been told, stop up to 9mm rounds. But to be honest i'd rather not try to find out if this is the case. They're not particularly stab proof either, the ones my force issue are supposed to be for ballistic trauma but will offer some protection from a bladed item, though again, i wouldn't want to test this theory. I cant speak for the Met issue armour, but from what i've seen of it, it's a bit thin and not very well fitting.

Hope the officer involved is ok.

Op trident is involved as it probably involves a firearm and a black suspect (both their remit). Funny it's mostly them dealing with the bulk of shootings in London.

The Home Office has various standards of resistance for protective vests

Stab resistant ( No 5 and No 9 blades) 40 Joule attack.

HG 1 (Hand Gun) 1 and 2 (9mm Browning and 0.357 Magnum equivelants).

HG 2 - 0.44 Magnum equivelants.

SG (Shotgun) 1 - No 6 shot

SG 2 - bigger badder boys (SG etc (NOT Brenneker)

Various rifle calibres also apply but by then its starting to get ridiculous.

I remember? the above from trials I did over 12 years ago so please don't crucify me if they are out of date. However it is once again the old argument of mobility over protection and acceptability. It really isn't viable to ensure police officers will wear the armour all of the time when on duty if they things weigh 15 Kg each (one did and was excellent but its all down to threat assessment)

IIRC it all depended on what the threat was at the time. I worked in DPEE at the time and we tested the vests on behalf of a Force and I explained the above tenets of mobility etc. I think they opted for stab vests with HG 1 and SG 1 protection with more specialised vests for armed response units. They actuall wanted their Officers to wear the vests at all times. They had a couple of good (uniformed) senior officers on the project who asked for and took advice. How does that work then

Stand By for incoming - the Force paid for these vests by forcing a lot of their finest off the sicko list and out altogether.